cult film freak: robert hooks

Written by James M. Tate / 8/03/2024 / No comments / claudia jennings , don gordon , efrem zimbalist jr. , gangster , gerald mcraney , harvey keitel , james b.sikking , post-heist , robert hooks , seventies , tv series , vincent beck

HARVEY KEITEL ON THE POST-HEIST 'THE FBI: DEADLY AMBITION'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZrRAx5RWHrMZdiGP3Lptr3IP9tXOgLZKrZHu0-zBgCoQQTbBxl2Lhj6Irckl7sq-H2VtvsiKbouimo6sAspGRI7hi19SRhCboDV5x3-ooPqDJ6GkwzeDP-ZFfDDw-hX023e39TIORk8V_CGxGlOjWercwoqoYAshmLrbiU7AjsUJSwyByUFmw0yyEZ9O/s1908/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-05%20at%2011.51.13%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="1908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZrRAx5RWHrMZdiGP3Lptr3IP9tXOgLZKrZHu0-zBgCoQQTbBxl2Lhj6Irckl7sq-H2VtvsiKbouimo6sAspGRI7hi19SRhCboDV5x3-ooPqDJ6GkwzeDP-ZFfDDw-hX023e39TIORk8V_CGxGlOjWercwoqoYAshmLrbiU7AjsUJSwyByUFmw0yyEZ9O/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-05%20at%2011.51.13%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The very end quote of the final season FBI episode DEADLY AMBITION sums up what the viewer had already noticed, underlining the over-the-top proto-noir performance of Harvey Keitel, fresh from a MEAN STREETS breakthrough that was more critically acclaimed than mainstream enough to go beyond several television crime shows, including the pilot episode of KOJAK, where he plays a similar climbing crook, only leading a bank heist...<br><br>Here it's much more fun and involving as Keitel, after pulling off a rural armored car robbery and forcing lowly but lovely cook Claudia Jennings to be his sexy moll, climbs through the ranks of the bigwigs who hired him, including BULLITT co-star Don Gordon, leading to Robert Hooks as, strangely enough, a black mob boss who prefers golfing to chewing out Italian underlings...</p><p><span></span></p>

claudia jennings, don gordon, efrem zimbalist jr., gangster, gerald mcraney, harvey keitel, james b.sikking, post-heist, robert hooks, seventies, tv series, vincent beck

HARVEY KEITEL ON THE POST-HEIST 'THE FBI: DEADLY AMBITION'

Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition Year: 1974 Rating: **** The very end quote of the final season FBI episode DEADLY AMBITION sums up...

FAVORITES SHORTLIST

1)OTLEY 2)ROBBERY 3)HELL IS A CITY 4)THE FEARMAKERS 5)CANYON PASSAGE 6)HOT CARS 7)VIOLENT SATURDAY 8)THE BREAK 9)THE CROWDED SKY 10)THE ROARING TWENTIES 11) ANATOMY OF A MURDER 12)CALCULATED RISK 13)SWEENEY TWO 14)RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA 15)HARDCORE 16)JUNGLE STREET 17)WHITE HEAT 18)FALLEN ANGEL 19)A PRIZE OF ARMS 20)THE BIG HEAT 21)SHARKS' TREASURE 22)THE MARKED ONES 23)THE DRIVER 24)THE SYSTEM 25)AIR PATROL 26)THE STONE KILLER 27)JOURNEY INTO FEAR 28)WILLIAM CONRAD'S BRAINSTORM 29)FRENZY 30)THE MAN FROM LARAMIE FAVORITE ACTORS 1)DANA ANDREWS 2)JAMES CAGNEY 3)STANLEY BAKER 4)MARLON BRANDO 5)JACK NICHOLSON 6)CHARLES BRONSON 7)BURT REYNOLDS 8)WILLIAM LUCAS 9)TOM COURTENAY 10)GENE HACKMAN DIRECTORS 1)JACQUES TOURNEUR 2)RICHARD FLEISCHER 3)VAL GUEST 4)STANLEY KUBRICK 5)OTTO PREMINGER 6)ORSON WELLES 7)JOHN GUILLERMAN 8)JOHN LANDIS 9)SAM PECKINPAH 10)MICHAEL WINNER